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Re: <XML:SCRIPT>

• From: Lisa Rein <lisarein@f...>
• To: "Kirkpatrick, Alfie" <akirkpatrick@i...>
• Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 06:54:52 -0700

the quote was straight out of the Action Sheets spec

lisa

Kirkpatrick, Alfie wrote:
> 
> Lisa,
> 
> Whoever wrote the quote you give doesn't understand the XML concept very
> well. XML is for capturing data/information. I can easily write:
> 
>    <mytag onMouseOver="function()">This is my tag</mytag>
> 
> and it will be well-formed XML. Whether the processing application (read
> browser)
> understands this is another matter but not a matter which the XML
> standard
> needs to concern itself with. Any agreed DTD which defines the semantics
> of certain attributes like the one above is just that, an agreed DTD
> like HTML4.
> 
> Sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, it's just that the quote you give
> misses the
> point so completely! Perhaps it is taken out of context?
> 
> Alfie.
> 
> > ----------
> > From:         Lisa Rein
> > Sent:         08 July 1998 17:26
> > To:   Frank Boumphrey
> > Cc:   Dom mailing list; xml mailing list
> > Subject:      Re: <XML:SCRIPT>
> >
> > This is a very interesting question to me, right now, because I am
> > currently writing about the Action Sheets modularized scripting for
> > HTML
> > and XML proposal (paraphrase on purpose) from Netscape, and I'm having
> > trouble swallowing this (from the spec)  can anyone help me to
> > understand if this is true or maybe how it was meant to be taken (and
> > yes I've tried the Netscape guys first....)
> >
> > > While HTML contains a SCRIPT element and HTML
> > > elements may contain attributes that specify event handlers
> > (onClick, onMouseOver, etc.), XML
> > > contains no way of including an external scripting language.
> >
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > lisa
> >


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